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Thousands of learners who cannot afford to buy sanitary pads were left vulnerable. (File)
With budgets diverted to food parcels, nearly 180,000 Gauteng learners did not receive dignity packs, which include sanitary towels. Health-e spoke to learners who were left vulnerable by the decision.
Thousands of Gauteng learners were left vulnerable when the provincial Department of Social Development (DSD) failed to deliver their dignity packs in recent months.
The Department of Women, Youths and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD) launched the Sanitary Dignity Programme in 2019. The programme was meant to implemented for quantile one to three schools. The National Treasury also made funds available so that the programme could run in all nine provinces.
When the state is focused on executive governance by regulation, the craft of drafting good laws easily falls by the wayside. The making of three bills central to South African life dealing with land reform, police transformation and electoral reform illustrates the snags of lawmaking from the unprecedented to the pedestrian and the troubled.
The Unprecedented: Land Court Bill
Presently before the State Law Advisers for certification, or the official endorsement that the bill indeed meets all criteria of being a bill, this draft law is breaking with 26 years of constitutional democratic practice ditching departmental public consultations.
It’s unprecedented to skip this step.
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LIVE FEED: State Capture Inquiry - February 18, 2021
By IOL Reporter, Siviwe Feketha
Feb 18, 2021
Johannesburg - The Zondo commission will hear Parliamentary Oversight-related evidence on Thursday.
Executive Secretary of Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (Casac), Lawson Naidoo is expected to take the stand.
The commission will also hear evidence from Professor Emeritus of Public Law University of Cape Town, Professor Hugh Corder, Parliamentary Monitor of Parliamentary Monitoring Group, Jennifer Rault-Smith and the Director of Corruption Watch David Lewis.
This week was set aside for former president Jacob Zuma’s appearance but he informed the commission on Monday through his lawyer that that he would defy a Constitutional Court summons which compelled him to attend.